Large and Huge mining lasers ?

Poy

Poy
Hey, I was just wondering if we could expect to see Large and Huge mining lasers appear in the game alongside the new weapons ? Could be great to make mining more rewarding for bigger ships without having to spend hours to fill the hold. :)
 

CMDR Taipo

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I was honestly surprised when I got my first ship with large hard points and saw the limited selection of weapons available, and then shocked when a saw there were only 2 for huge. Hopefully we'll see some larger mining lasers to go along with the new large and huge weapons.
 

Thetele

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I would say that we don't need larger mining lasers. 2 medium lasers mine asteroids fast and you need 6 limpets to collect on same speed than those 2 mediums mine. Faster lasers wouldn't bring any benefit because it would just increase time you have to sit still and wait for limpets to pick everything up. Of course you could have more limpet controllers but that would mean less cargo space and more trips to station to sell/restock. With mining the time that it takes to mine one rock isn't the problem, the problem is the randomness of finding something worth to mine.

Lasers that give us more stuff per rock would be useful on other hand. More weapons are needed but not sure if larger mining lasers would bring any benefit if those are just faster.
 

Poy

Poy
Thetele said:
I would say that we don't need larger mining lasers. 2 medium lasers mine asteroids fast and you need 6 limpets to collect on same speed than those 2 mediums mine. Faster lasers wouldn't bring any benefit because it would just increase time you have to sit still and wait for limpets to pick everything up. Of course you could have more limpet controllers but that would mean less cargo space and more trips to station to sell/restock. With mining the time that it takes to mine one rock isn't the problem, the problem is the randomness of finding something worth to mine.

Lasers that give us more stuff per rock would be useful on other hand. More weapons are needed but not sure if larger mining lasers would bring any benefit if those are just faster.
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Larger mining lasers could mine more deeply into the asteroids giving heavier/more rare/more valuable materials ?
 

Bacalao

Bacalao
Thetele said:
I would say that we don't need larger mining lasers. 2 medium lasers mine asteroids fast and you need 6 limpets to collect on same speed than those 2 mediums mine. Faster lasers wouldn't bring any benefit because it would just increase time you have to sit still and wait for limpets to pick everything up. Of course you could have more limpet controllers but that would mean less cargo space and more trips to station to sell/restock. With mining the time that it takes to mine one rock isn't the problem, the problem is the randomness of finding something worth to mine. Lasers that give us more stuff per rock would be useful on other hand. More weapons are needed but not sure if larger mining lasers would bring any benefit if those are just faster.
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I run 12 limpets with a station right next to my rings, bring on the large mining lasers.
 

Conch

Conch
Running 4 mining laser on a conda or corvette makes bigger mining lasers obsolete.

just one capisitor per roid and i got the full yield. And running 9 limpets.

i would rather see a filter function in the refinery. Now ive got to purge all the stuff i dont need.
 

Poy

Poy
Conch said:
Running 4 mining laser on a conda or corvette makes bigger mining lasers obsolete.

just one capisitor per roid and i got the full yield. And running 9 limpets.

i would rather see a filter function in the refinery. Now ive got to purge all the stuff i dont need.
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Not everyone wants to sacrifice the majority of their hardpoints on non fighting weaponry. Having bigger mining lasers offers options.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Poy said:
Larger mining lasers could mine more deeply into the asteroids giving heavier/more rare/more valuable materials ?
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Or more range... or with multicrew the ability to harvest multiple asteroids in parallel...

Mining barges anyone?
 

CMDRBuxton

CMDRBuxton
Conch said:
i would rather see a filter function in the refinery. Now ive got to purge all the stuff i dont need.
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I'd vote for that too. It'd make mining so much easier.

Either that or the ability to stop collector limpets from picking up cargo that you'd ejected so you could get rid of the crappy metals more easily after they'd been refined.
 

Poy

Poy
CMDRBuxton said:
I'd vote for that too. It'd make mining so much easier.

Either that or the ability to stop collector limpets from picking up cargo that you'd ejected so you could get rid of the crappy metals more easily after they'd been refined.
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A blacklist or, probably more simply a whitelist would be blissful for the refinery (only accept 3 ores) and limpets (ignore illegal canisters). Especially the refinery one so huge miners could literally empty asteroid fields and just keep what they want. It would make bulk mining pretty damn profitable !
 

CMDR Poet Starwind

CMDR Poet Starwind
Poy said:
A blacklist or, probably more simply a whitelist would be blissful for the refinery (only accept 3 ores) and limpets (ignore illegal canisters). Especially the refinery one so huge miners could literally empty asteroid fields and just keep what they want. It would make bulk mining pretty damn profitable !
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This. Something to keep the limpets from picking up canisters of lesser ore, when running low on cargo space.
 

DragoonKnight

DragoonKnight
Asadaine said:
Yes and i don't see why we can't just have tractor beams aswell. Especially seeing as we've basically invented them already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34647921

Limpits schmimpits.
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These tractor beams work based on sound waves. Sound waves do not exist in a vacuum so there is that...

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What i do not understand is why we can not reuse limpets. They should just return to the ship when done collecting so that we dont have to carry 100 tons of limpets
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Two or three mediums already max out an A class distributor. And given FDEVs penchant for reduced returns at higher ranks, you'd Likely lose from an efficiency standpoint. Although I admit, having one large maiming laser equal to about 1.5 mediums might be useful for someone since it would only consume. One slot.

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DragoonKnight said:
These tractor beams work based on sound waves. Sound waves do not exist in a vacuum so there is that...

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What i do not understand is why we can not reuse limpets. They should just return to the ship when done collecting so that we dont have to carry 100 tons of limpets
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Agreed. Limpets system is a bit stupid.
 
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